jbreher, why then are you promoting an alternate Bitcoin project that today's technology can't deal with? Why are you pushing in a direction that literally could never deal with mainstream adoption before it arrives? You can't have it both ways.
This is the problem that bitcoin is now encountering. Instead of moving forward it is moving backward. I just noticed that every time the price of bitcoin increases the transactions will take a long time to confirm. So I say that there is a connection between mining and the increase in bitcoins price. The moment the price of of bitcoin inflates the miners cannot cope up with the transactions traffic.